The IJN Hashidate Maru was a Japanese Standard Merchant 1TL tanker built by Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation for Nippon Kaiyo Gyogyo K. K. It was built at Kobe, Japan and commissioned on 31 October 1944 to support the war effort by transporting oil, and was later refitted as a whaling factory ship.[1][2]
The IJN HashidateMaru was a Japanese Standard Merchant 1TL tanker built by Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation for Nippon Kaiyo Gyogyo K. K. It was built...
whaling factory ships (HashidateMaru and Nisshin Maru No. 1), to once again hunt whales in the Antarctic and elsewhere. Nisshin Maru No. 1 (11,803 tons)...
authorized two tankers to be converted into factory ships, the HashidateMaru and the Nisshin Maru. Whale catchers once again took blue whales, fins, humpbacks...
Japanese Navy, that operated in China during the 1940s. Hashidate was authorized under the Maru-3 Naval Expansion Budget of 1937. She was laid down at...
Maru and Nigitsu Maru (にぎつ丸) are also considered to be the first amphibious assault ships, althou, this tilte can be disputed with the Shinshū Maru that...
America Maru (亜米利加丸, Amerika-Maru) was the second of three high speed passenger liners built for the Oriential Steamship Company (Tōyō Kisen). Converted...
Tamatsu Maru was a World War II Japanese landing craft depot ship completed in January 1944 and remembered for the heavy loss of life when sunk by USS Spadefish...
Nigitsu Maru (にぎつ丸) was a Japanese "Type C" landing craft depot ship operated by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The vessel did not have a flight deck...
name Buyo Maru (武洋丸) with the identification number 24999. On 12 July 1932, she was sold to Tamai Shosen K.K. of Kobe and registered in Hashidate. On 16...
Kumano Maru (熊野丸) was a landing craft carrier with a full-length flight deck built for the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. Completed...
cruisers: the 4,700 ton Matsushima and Itsukushima, built in France, and the Hashidate, built at Yokosuka. 3 coastal warships of 4,278 tons.[citation needed]...
the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. The IJA called them Maru Yu (マルゆ). The six-month-long Guadalcanal campaign came to an end in early...
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